多星敏感器测量最优姿态估计算法

多数利用星敏感器加陀螺组合的姿态确定方法中,由于星敏感器精度较高,使得系统定姿的精度比较高.然而,姿态确定的算法因观测模型和误差处理不当,导致滤波器观测修正能力下降,从而不能有效地估计陀螺的漂移误差.提出了基于星敏感器观测姿态角的误差建模,研究了多星敏感器组合的最优安装构型和观测融合方法.利用加权最小二乘法对观测数据的预处理,使观测方程定常化.再利用陀螺加星敏感器组合的扩展Kalman滤波(EKF,Extended Kalman Filtering)对航天器姿态和陀螺漂移进行估计.仿真结果表明,提出的多星敏感器最优组合的滤波方法能够有效精确地估计卫星三轴姿态和陀螺漂移,且该方法计算量小,有利于卫星定姿系统的在轨自主运行.     

多敏感器联邦SSUKF融合姿态确定算法

针对四元数姿态估计问题,提出了一种分布式非线性滤波融合结构。通过引入基于超球面分布采样点变换(SSUT)技术的无迹卡尔曼滤波算法(SSUKF),以较低的计算量实现了高数据更新率、高精度的非线性滤波,并通过融合重构,保障系统无间断可靠工作,不受敏感器故障、视场盲区等因素影响。应用该算法对陀螺、磁强计、太阳敏感器、星敏感器构成的系统进行了具体设计并开展仿真研究,验证了算法的有效性。     

一种基于虚拟星敏感器的卫星姿态确定方法

对于配置多个星敏感器的卫星,采用常规的定常增益卡尔曼滤波方法进行姿态确定时,存在滤波定常增益矩阵众多、系统复杂的问题,为了简化滤波系统设计,统一定常增益矩阵,提出一种基于虚拟星敏感器的姿态确定方法.给出一种计算量小、适合星载计算机在轨实时计算的星敏感器时间滞后补偿及相对基准标定算法,将星敏感器的输出数据统一到当前星时,同时将星敏感器的测量基准统一.基于单星敏/双星敏的输出数据构造虚拟星敏感器(安装矩阵为单位阵)的输出数据,设计统一的定常增益矩阵进行姿态确定.仿真结果表明,本方法与常规的定常增益卡尔曼滤波方法姿态确定精度相当,从而验证该方法有效,且具有重要的工程应用价值.     

无陀螺下基于修正罗德里格参数的星体姿态确定

介绍了修正罗德里格参数(MRP),分析比较了姿态表示参数修正罗德里格参数和四元数的算法特点。通过仿真计算,比较了当卫星受一阶马尔柯夫干扰力矩作用和CCD星敏感器为唯一星载角运动传感器时,分别用修正罗德里格参数和四元数作为姿态表示参数,采用UKF(Unscented Kalman Filter)估计卫星航向、姿态及相应角速率的滤波效果。结果表明,用修正罗德里格参数法的姿态解算精度比用四元数法的姿态解算精度高,且计算效率明显优于四元数算法,计算量仅相当于四元数算法的一半,这是由于四元数的规范化条件(即模值为1),在姿态确定中会导致误差协方差阵奇异,而修正罗德里格参数虽然不是全局非奇异的,但是可以通过切换方法解决奇异性问题。     

基于四元数平方根容积卡尔曼滤波的姿态估计

针对飞行器姿态确定中乘性扩展卡尔曼滤波(MEKF,Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter)在较大初始姿态误差角情况下存在估计精度低及收敛速度慢的问题,提出了一种四元数平方根容积卡尔曼滤波(QSCKF,Quaternion Square-root Cubature Kalman Filter)算法.在推导姿态确定系统四元数非线性误差模型的基础上,采用容积数值积分理论来计算非线性函数的均值与方差,同时使用平方根的形式来提高数值稳定性;针对四元数规范化问题,采用拉格朗日代价函数法求解四元数加权均值.仿真结果表明:在初始姿态误差较大的情况下,该算法相比较于MEKF以及无迹四元数估计法(USQUE,Unscented Quaternion Estimator),估计精度高且收敛速度快,滤波稳定性好,同时估计时间比USQUE缩短了1/3.     

基于四元数平方根容积卡尔曼滤波的姿态估计

针对飞行器姿态确定中乘性扩展卡尔曼滤波(MEKF, Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter)在较大初始姿态误差角情况下存在估计精度低及收敛速度慢的问题,提出了一种四元数平方根容积卡尔曼滤波(QSCKF,Quaternion Square-root Cubature Kalman Filter)算法.在推导姿态确定系统四元数非线性误差模型的基础上,采用容积数值积分理论来计算非线性函数的均值与方差,同时使用平方根的形式来提高数值稳定性;针对四元数规范化问题,采用拉格朗日代价函数法求解四元数加权均值.仿真结果表明:在初始姿态误差较大的情况下,该算法相比较于MEKF以及无迹四元数估计法(USQUE, Unscented Quaternion Estimator),估计精度高且收敛速度快,滤波稳定性好,同时估计时间比USQUE缩短了1/3.     

基于矢量观测的航天器分段信息融合定姿方法

针对基于MEMS(微机电系统)陀螺和CMOS APS星敏感器的集成惯性/星光姿态确定系统的低精度特点,研究了适用于该定姿系统的基于矢量观测的定姿算法.对于陀螺/星敏感器这种配置模式,有EKF(Extended Kalman Filter)、QUEST、最优REQUEST等几种适用的定姿算法.针对EKF和最优REQUEST算法的不同特点并结合确定性算法QUEST,以四元数为姿态参数,将姿态估计的EKF方法分别与QUEST算法和最优REQUEST算法进行了融合,提出一种分段信息融合的姿态估计器:陀螺漂移估计误差较大时,将EKF与QUEST结合,快速估计出陀螺漂移.当陀螺漂移误差减小到一定程度,再切换为EKF与最优REQUEST算法融合的双重滤波器.仿真比较结果表明,这种分段信息融合的姿态估计器既可以估计姿态参数也可以估计陀螺漂移,并能达到很高的定姿精度.     

捷联惯导与星敏感器组合导航算法研究

以Kalman滤波为基础,通过将捷联惯导系统和星敏感器所测得的飞行器相关姿态信息进行数据融合,估计出组合导航系统的误差状态量,进而修正捷联惯导系统的位置、速度和姿态角。详细推导了捷联惯导与星敏感器组合导航的算法,并通过对仿真结果的分析证实了该方案的可行性和算法的有效性。     

基于UPF滤波的微小航天器姿态矩阵估计方法

针对基于惯性-星光姿态确定系统噪声存在非高斯分布的情况,提出了将离散粒子滤波(UPF)方法应用于定姿系统滤波器设计,该方法用离散卡尔曼滤波(UKF)得到粒子滤波的重要采样函数,从而克服扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)和UKF只能应用到噪声为高斯分布的不足。文章以微机电系统(MEMS)陀螺和互补性金属氧化物半导体有源像素图像传感器(CMOS APS)星敏感器为姿态敏感器件,选取基于矢量观测的最小参数姿态矩阵估计方法为定姿算法,提出将UPF与最小参数姿态矩阵估计方法结合,设计了一种针对微小航天器的UPF姿态估计器,采用从MEMS陀螺采集的数据进行了半物理仿真并对其特性进行了分析与比较。仿真比较结果表明:在敏感器精度较差并且系统噪声非高斯分布的情况下,这种基于UPF的姿态估计方法可以取得比EKF和UKF更快的滤波收敛性和更好的滤波精度,有效地提高了定姿性能。     

基于Gauss-Newton和UKF结合的微小卫星姿态确定算法

为提高微型低成本姿态敏感器的姿态确定精度,文章基于磁强计/太阳敏感器/陀螺的姿态敏感器配置,设计了高斯牛顿（Gauss-Newton,GN）迭代算法和无迹卡尔曼滤波（Unscented Kalman Filter,UKF）有机结合的微小卫星姿态确定算法,先用Gauss-Newton算法融合磁强计和太阳敏感器的数据,迭代计算最优四元数,然后以最优四元数联合陀螺数据作为观测量,以姿态四元数和惯性系下的角速度为状态量进行UKF,降低观测维数,并将观测方程转化为线性方程,显著减小计算量,同时克服了测量误差对姿态确定精度的影响。     

Learning in an immersive digital theater

The Houston Museum of Natural Science, in collaboration with Rice University has an outreach program taking portable digital theaters to schools and community sites for over five years and has conducted research on student learning in this immersive environment. By using an external independent evaluator, the effectiveness of NASA-funded Education and Public Outreach (EPO) projects can be assessed. This paper documents interactive techniques and learning strategies in full-dome digital theaters. The presentation is divided into Evaluation Strategies and Results and Interactivity Strategies and Results. All learners from grades 3–12 showed statistically significant short-term increase in knowledge of basic Earth science concepts after a single 22-min show. Improvements were more significant on items that were taught using more than one modality of instruction: hearing, seeing, discussion, and immersion. Thus immersive theater can be an effective as well as engaging teaching method for Earth and Space science concepts, particularly those that are intrinsically three-dimensional and thus most effectively taught in an immersive environment. The portable system allows taking the educational experience to rural and tribal sites where the underserved students could not afford the time or expense to travel to museums.     

Stochastic particle acceleration by the forced interaction of relativistic current sheets

We address the problem of interacting relativistic current sheets in self-consistent kinetic plasma simulations within the framework of the Particle-In-Cell model. The interaction is enforced in head-on collisions of up to 10 current sheets at relativistic bulk speeds. The simulations are motivated by the general problem of Poynting flux dissipation in ‘striped wind’ configurations presumably governing the relativistic outflows pervasive in pulsar winds and gamma-ray bursts. We identify the generation of non-thermal particles and formation of a stable power-law shape in the particle energy distributions f(γ) dγ ∝ γ^−s dγ. In 1D, a spectral index s ∼ 2 is observed and attributed to a stochastic Fermi-type acceleration mechanism. In 2D, the generic index of s ∼ 3–4 is retained as in previous simulations of individual current sheets. Whereas in 2D the high energy cut-off is constrained by the limited dissipation of magnetic energy, in 1D the process converts the bulk motion of current sheets towards directed particle momentum of an exclusive class of non-thermal particles.     

Scaling analysis and model estimation of solar corona index

A monthly average solar green coronal index time series for the period from January 1939 to December 2008 collected from NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has been analysed in this paper in perspective of scaling analysis and modelling. Smoothed and de-noising have been done using suitable mother wavelet as a pre-requisite. The Finite Variance Scaling Method (FVSM), Higuchi method, rescaled range (R/S) and a generalized method have been applied to calculate the scaling exponents and fractal dimensions of the time series. Autocorrelation function (ACF) is used to find autoregressive (AR) process and Partial autocorrelation function (PACF) has been used to get the order of AR model. Finally a best fit model has been proposed using Yule-Walker Method with supporting results of goodness of fit and wavelet spectrum. The results reveal an anti-persistent, Short Range Dependent (SRD), self-similar property with signatures of non-causality, non-stationarity and nonlinearity in the data series. The model shows the best fit to the data under observation.     

Development of a gas chromatography compatible Sample Processing System (SPS) for the in-situ analysis of refractory organic matter in martian soil: preliminary results

In the frame of the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission a new sample preparation system (SPS) compatible with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) has been developed for the in situ analysis of complex organic molecules in the Martian soil. The goal is to detect, if they exist, some of the key compounds that play an important role in life on Earth including carboxylic acids, amino acids and nucleobases.     

基于LuGre模型的电液加载系统摩擦补偿

为了提高电液加载系统控制精度,针对摩擦问题提出了基于LuGre摩擦模型的前馈补偿方法.建立了用于摩擦仿真分析和补偿器设计的电液加载系统数学模型;通过实验获取并分析了相关的摩擦数据;基于实验数据进行LuGre模型参数辨识,把LuGre模型和辨识结果引入电液加载系统数学模型,并进行仿真结果与实际摩擦数据的对照,证明了LuGre摩擦模型的准确性.设计前馈补偿器,进行了实验对比,实验结果表明前馈补偿器可将摩擦产生的控制误差有效地降至未补偿时的30%左右.      

CoRoT and Kepler results: Solar-like oscillators

The space-borne observatories CoRoT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transits) and Kepler have provided photometric time series data of unprecedented precision for large numbers of stars. These data have revolutionized the fields of transiting exoplanets and asteroseismology. In this review some important asteroseismic results obtained using data from the CoRoT and Kepler space missions concerning stars that show solar-like oscillations are discussed. These results comprise, among others, measurements of the location of the base of the convection zone and helium second-ionization zone in main-sequence stars, the presence (or not) of core-helium burning in red-giant stars, as well as differential rotation in these stars.     

Radioactivity of the Moon and planets

In this report the main results of the study of radioactivity of the solar sistem bodies are considered. The radioactivity of the Moon and planets was measured by means of vehicles in situ. The radioactivity of the lunar samples, brought to the Earth was studied with laboratory equipment.     

Return to Europa: Overview of the Jupiter Europa orbiter mission

Missions to explore Europa have been imagined ever since the Voyager mission first suggested that Europa was geologically very young. Subsequently, the Galileo spacecraft supplied fascinating new insights into this satellite of Jupiter. Now, an international team is proposing a return to the Jupiter system and Europa with the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM). Currently, NASA and ESA are designing two orbiters that would explore the Jovian system and then each would settle into orbit around one of Jupiter’s icy satellites, Europa and Ganymede. In addition, the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) is considering a Jupiter magnetospheric orbiter and the Russian Space Agency is investigating a Europa lander.     

基于最小值原理的冗余度机器人动力学控制

为了解冗余度机器人全局法优化中数值求解的困难,本文讨论了动力学方程的建立,无约束和有约束最优控制问题之间的内在联系,重点分析了求解最优控制问题的数值方法,文中提出了双向异步积分迭代的求解正则方程组的直接迭代法,较好解决了状态方程和协态方程稳定相逆给求解两点这值问题带来的困难。     

基于GPS载波相位的微卫星姿态算法研究

GPS姿态系统是利用GPS载波相位测量来确定载体的航向和姿态角。本文对微卫星的GPS姿态系统进行了研究。重点解决短基线的GPS状态算法，讨论了姿态价格函数的了小化方法。测试结果表明，所提的算法对小于1m的基线是有效的。